PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 62 77
Rank change year-on-year +32 +15 +7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 80 36 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.50% 2.83% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.16% 6.92% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 28
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £48,156 £49,250 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £57,500 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -11.78% +26.55%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile - £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £62,250 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.45% -3.64% -2.22%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 378 520 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.17% 40.82% 46.69%
Number of salaries quoted 152 275 377
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £32,639 £46,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,249 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.45% -4.35% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) CICS
3 1 (1.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.25%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 66 (82.50%) Azure
2 32 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 32 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (35.00%) Entra ID
4 18 (22.50%) dbt
4 18 (22.50%) Snowflake
5 13 (16.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 10 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (12.50%) GitHub
7 8 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (10.00%) Boomi
7 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (10.00%) Mimecast
7 8 (10.00%) SaaS
8 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.00%) AWS
9 4 (5.00%) Azure App Service
9 4 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) Firewall
2 5 (6.25%) Telnet
3 4 (5.00%) BGP
3 4 (5.00%) DNS
3 4 (5.00%) LAN
3 4 (5.00%) MPLS
3 4 (5.00%) VPN
3 4 (5.00%) WAN
3 4 (5.00%) Wireless
4 3 (3.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.25%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (21.25%) JIRA
2 6 (7.50%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (85.00%) Finance
2 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Senior
2 18 (22.50%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Platform Specialist
7 4 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Lead
10 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.25%) Support Engineer
10 1 (1.25%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 8 (10.00%) OAuth
1 8 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 8 (10.00%) REST
1 8 (10.00%) SAML
1 8 (10.00%) SOAP
1 8 (10.00%) Swagger
1 8 (10.00%) Web Services
2 5 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (48.75%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.25%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.25%) Equities
3 5 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Robotics
6 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.00%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.00%) VMS
4 2 (2.50%) Linux
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (77.50%) Asset Management
2 61 (76.25%) Coaching
3 52 (65.00%) Agile
4 46 (57.50%) DevOps
4 46 (57.50%) Roadmaps
5 36 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (45.00%) ITIL
6 31 (38.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (37.50%) AI
8 27 (33.75%) CI/CD
9 26 (32.50%) Analytics
9 26 (32.50%) FinOps
9 26 (32.50%) Machine Learning
9 26 (32.50%) Technology Roadmap
10 20 (25.00%) Mentoring
11 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (22.50%) Information Security
13 11 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (13.75%) User Experience
14 10 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (63.75%) Python
2 27 (33.75%) SQL
3 25 (31.25%) Bash
4 8 (10.00%) C#
4 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) CISSP
1 6 (7.50%) CREST Certified
1 6 (7.50%) SANS
2 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.25%) CCNA
3 1 (1.25%) CEH
3 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.25%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) GIAC
3 1 (1.25%) GREM
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 9 (11.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.00%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 45 (56.25%) Terraform
2 19 (23.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (10.00%) SCCM
3 8 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (7.50%) Ansible
5 5 (6.25%) Grafana
6 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.25%) ServiceNow
3 8 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 8 (10.00%) Workday
4 6 (7.50%) Splunk
5 5 (6.25%) Charles River
5 5 (6.25%) Cisco
6 4 (5.00%) F5
6 4 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.50%) IBM
8 1 (1.25%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.25%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.25%) CrowdStrike